“To be treated as remotely credible, she had to be nearly perfect. She is a well-educated, blond, heterosexual mother; Republican Senator Orrin Hatch described her as ‘attractive’ and ‘pleasing.’ Her Ph.D. in psychology allowed her to speak fluently about the neurobiology of her own trauma... she wasn’t confused or defensive about why she remembered some details of the night in question but not others... Yet even near perfection, in this case, is probably not enough."

From the Right

The right found both Ford and Kavanaugh credible, but believes that the evidence is in Kavanaugh’s favor and voting him down would set a dangerous precedent.

“I believe that Christine Ford believes she’s telling the truth. I believe that Brett Kavanaugh believes he’s telling the truth. How do we decide? In the end, we have to go on the evidence — and there is no evidence at all that Ford is telling the truth, and there is meaningful evidence that she is not."

While some on the left argue that “because she sincerely believes that she was assaulted and that on some occasions 30 or more years after the alleged incident mentioned it to others, therefore her allegations are proven... raising the allegations 30 years and more later confirms only that she believes her own allegations, not that her allegations as they concerned Judge Kavanaugh are valid."

“It doesn’t matter if you believe Christine Blasey Ford or Brett Kavanaugh. Both sides were done a tremendous disservice by the manner in which Senate Democrats deliberately slow-walked these charges because they thought that they could be used to kill the Kavanaugh nomination... the way to get to the truth—if that was even a possibility to begin with—was to handle this weeks ago when it could have been done behind closed doors."